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I Dont Understand What I Did Wrong

I Miscommunicate.... I can't communicate with people. Like yesterday i was IMing and I thought they wanted to follow a certain track of thought, but they kept ignoring me and losing place in the conversation. I was in the process of trying to understand something about them, maybe understand something about people in general. Then they got frustrated with me and cut it off. They didn't propose changing the subject, they didn't tell me to drop it, they didn't tell me what I was trying to understand, they just drop off and got angry. So obviously I'm no closer to understanding, and I feel like I need to know, I perseverate over knowledge. So understanding the break point in that convo, has gotten me rocking, stimming and... nothing that gets me closer to understanding.
toddr13 · 46-50, M
That can easily happen, even with people whom you know. I go through that with a friend of mine, periodically, who expects me to drop everything when I get a message, but then when they get the response (usually advice) that they need, the conversation falls flat, even if I have not spoken to them in a while. As a result, I find myself having more technological issues, i.e., can't receive an IM notification when the phone is off, because I need a break. Then, in the past when I have mentioned something, I am told that it's all in my head, and that I jump to too many conclusions. So, I give up on trying to understand the random actions of yet another person because it's not worth the stress of wondering whether or not something is wrong, or if I was just needed for a moment. With subsequent issues with the same person, as with one friend, I drift further afield from them, and actually fondly remember the six months when we were not speaking because they blew up at me over nothing. No argument this time, but common ties don't seem as important, and yet I still don't know what I did wrong. Long story short, don't give people too much benefit of the doubt, since it's rarely a circumstance where you caused a breakdown in a normal conversation, not one that was heated with words flying, as then it would be easy to find the breaking point.
NeuroticByNature · 41-45, F
Some people want you to read between the lines but wont give you enough information to give it away on their own. Or maybe they were catfishing and you didnt take a bate they wanted you to take. Or they were the one with problems communicating. Dont put people on a pedestal. Theyre more like you than you think.

 
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